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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… satirical representations of diverse forms of meeting and mixing on the streets, at fairs, and in parks, taverns and coffeehouses . He wrote to entertain, and satirical exaggeration was germane to the endeavour, but his humour … five years later he relocated to Moorfields, where he ran a tavern until 1728 when he moved again, this time to open a coffeehouse on an alley running between Holborn and the entrance to Gray’s Inn. It was here that he died in June 1731. … worshippers’ appeared as though the ‘world was turned topsy-turvy’. 5 In another issue, the Spy retires to a nearby coffeehouse bristling with fops chewing over matters political. These ‘beau-politicians’ were ‘a very gaudy crowd of …
Clubs | Humour | Impoliteness | Politics | Satire | Sex | Taverns
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… can be understood as institutions of the public sphere going further down the social scale than gentlemen’s clubs or coffeehouses. They developed in London, and later in provincial cities, in the second half of the eighteenth century. By … Senate (1808) and in the numerous discussions of the eloquence (and not just substantive arguments) of leading MPs in coffeehouses and in the press. 11 People flocked to debating societies because they wanted to hear good oratory, and to …
Advertisement | Clubs | Debate | Eloquence | Gender | Middling sort | North America | Politics | Public sphere
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… for elite sociability co-existed with a vigorous popular culture, located in pubs, sites of curiosity, print shops, coffeehouses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
Anglo-Irishness | Clubs | Duelling | Politics | Whigs
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